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Connock & Lockie are making a sports jacket for me (previously they have made only my shirts). It is rather complicated with an action back, but looks to be shaping up superbly. I have had the first fitting and am going back for the second tomorrow. However it has been *very* slow - I was measured ...

With apologies for threatening to veer off the intended course of this thread, but has anyone had any recent experience with Connock & Lockie? I seem to recall reading of the unfortunate passing of their head cutter some time within the past two years or so, and of some suggestions of an attendant ...

Can anyone let me know why cordovan wallets are so expensive? Surely less leather and skill is required than for a pair of shoes?

Connock & Lockie on Lambs Conduit St charge £145 for a bespoke shirt and don't have a minimum order. I can recommend them highly although they can be slow. Graham Browne off Bow Lane in the City of London has recently started offering Rayner & Sturges shirts for quite a low price (perhaps £120?) but...

RWS wrote:

Winot wrote:. . . . I bought five metres of it at £16 plus VAT a metre - a bargain!

Quite a saving, Winot! Would you share your source?

RWS - direct from Minnis! The link is still on their website - see below:

http://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardy ... offers.asp

I have a light-weight, very dark blue summer weight blue suit in Rangoon from Anderson and Sheppard. Ordered an extra pair of trousers with it, thankfully. It's by far my most-traveled, hardest-wearing suit. I've taken it to India and China many times and worn it in the hottest North-East weather a...

(Forgive the cross post with other forums but I am hoping to elicit the the maximum number of responses). For some time now I have been buying bespoke suits from Graham Browne in the City of London, and as I have posted elsewhere I am very happy with the PQR of these. However I am now thinking of st...